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[steyn92]

His Mrs is RT'ing the Morgan tweets about no reason being provided for the sacking.

[jamielsn15]

Take what Morgan says with a pinch of salt - he's nothing but a trumped up, overpaid, lucky hack of the lowest order.  He's arguably one of the reasons KP's in the situation he's in - poor advice from people looking to make money out of him; that never ends well for sportsmen.

Atherton on Sky Sports right now - "KP found himself without any friends/allies."  I think that's bang on the money and I'd much rather get his opinion than Piers Morgan.  Or Bob Willis for that matter.

I do agree it's all about things that have happened that we know nothing about - the ECB place a lot of focus on team harmony.  And part of being a top player is being part of a team.  Its a team sport and one of the skills you need as a player.  IF he started to affect other players performances (I'm speculating, don't shoot me down!), then that team ethos is damaged.  The key words in the ECB statement are 'getting back to team ethics...'

I think its really  sad.  Yet another gifted player across English sports that we don't seem able to manage.  It has to be something ingrained in our national psyche that we seem to shoot down and mis-manage mercurial talents...

[Jason_Yuan]

Does this mean compton is coming back?

[smilley792]

Micheal Vaughan on radio 5.


"The hardest thing I found to manage, was his haircut"

[jamielsn15]

How about the inability to drive the complementary Jags, rocking up in his Ferrari??

[wilkie113]

Doesn't matter how big of a tit he is, he's Englands best player! His ego, arrogance whatever you wana call it has got to managed correctly, and Flower didn't do that, nor has Cook. Shell of side without firstly Trott, and now him.

How do you think Fattus's team put with his ego? it's all about man management.

[tim2000s]

There is clearly a lot that we don't know that's happened here. I'm not in favour of it per se, but then, I'm certain that cook is not the man manager that Vaughan was, and I'm not certain that they're is that in the England set up at the moment.

I reckon there's a lot more to come out...

[WalkingWicket37]

There is clearly a lot that we don't know that's happened here. I'm not in favour of it per se, but then, I'm certain that cook is not the man manager that Vaughan was, and I'm not certain that they're is that in the England set up at the moment.

I reckon there's a lot more to come out...

On current form and if rumours are to be believed, Prior won't play again, Ron Weasley will get one more tour before being disposed of, Root will be in and out/up and down the order until they get bored of him not performing and I dread to think who else will be disposed of/bought in.

England getting stuffed in the Ashes, questionable selection policies, it's almost like a return to the 90's!

[ppccopener]

Huge call from the ECB,KP has been disruptive at every team.i was on a tour of trent bridge last year and was told in all the years they'd never seen such an ego and problem player
The question is we have always had these players
Is it a failure to manage him or is he really such a problem?
I have a feeling we are going to find in the press
They will be all over this and the ECB will be the target
Big decision

[Blank Bats]

KP is box office.

Plain and simple.

Don't care about the rest.

[procricket]

It's ok we got Joe Root

[Bulldog Cricket]

I think he will be back.

[procricket]

Hope he is best English batsman of a generation

[Bulldog Cricket]

I see his father in law every day so will ask him.

[Blank Bats]

We want him in the T20 World Cup mate.

That's the show case event.

Why was he in the 30 man squad, just buying themselves some time.

Mediocre cricketers running the show now.